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It accommodates a traditional market, restaurants, a performance square, archaeological museum — and 'rooftop' terrace with a panoramic view of Seville's old city. Selected from 65 submissions in a city-sponsored competition, the structure was designed by German architect Jürgen Mayer , was completed in April 2011, [ 1 ] and is roughly 150 ...
The restaurant was opened as an Irish pub in 1923 and in 1941 was changed by Luis Fernandez and Alfonso Uchipi to a Spanish restaurant in what was then New York's Little Spain in the West Village. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Mr. Fernandez later sold the business to a gentleman named Tomas Gonzalez and his Basque partners two sons. Mr. Gonzalez ran the ...
Seville's modern port is in the southern tip of this district, having moved south from the neighbourhood of El Arenal in the Casco Antiguo in the 17th century. Attractions: The Parque de los Príncipes, the Seville Fair, the Puente de San Telmo, the Museo de Carruajes, Los Remedios' tower and the Cuba Square. Neighbourhoods. Tablada; Los Remedios
Map of the neighbourhoods of the Casco Antiguo. It has twelve neighbourhoods. Of these, El Arenal on the riverfront was the port of Seville until the Guadalquivir silted up in the 17th century, [2] while the neighbouring Santa Cruz neighbourhood was a Jewish quarter until the Spanish Inquisition.
The Seville Metro currently has 2 stations along the periphery of Los Remedios. Line 1 serves the Parque del Principe and Plaza de Cuba stations, also Line 4 will serve the Virgen de Oliva station. Line 1 runs in a SW-SE arc from one suburb to another, running through central Seville. Line 4 will be the sole circular line and is expected to ...
The most important art collection of Seville is the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. It was established in 1835 in the former Convent of La Merced . It holds many masterworks by Murillo , Pacheco , Zurbarán , Valdés Leal , and others masters of the Baroque Sevillian School, containing also Flemish paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries.
In the 1980s, FIBES (an acronym that stands for Feria Iberoamericana de Sevilla, Spanish for Ibero-American Exhibition of Seville), an entity that organized congresses and exhibitions in Seville, promoted a permanent venue for their activities, and in 1989, FIBES moved to the building purposely designed by Álvaro Navarro Jiménez. [2]
It was founded in 1414 by Father Diego Martínez de Medina. On 27 August 1964, it was declared a Historical-Artistic Monument. In 1966, it was bought by Carmen Iglesias Zubiada, who turned it into a private residence. In 1984, it was acquired by the Seville City Council. In 2015, it was turned into a neighborhood civic center. [1] [2] [3]